This project succeeds the projects of the GRR LMN “Portal Passage”, “Improvement of the overall logistic performance” and “CLASS phase 1”. As the work has been carried out, interdisciplinarity and inter-institutional collaborations have developed. This collaboration is materialised by the Federal Logistics Structure (SFLOG) of the University of Le Havre, certified by the Ministry, which aims to bring together the various laboratories active in the field of logistics. In this collaborative context, the idea of mobilising teams around improving the performance of the logistics corridors by applying the work to the Seine Axis appeared to be obvious for each of the participants: the constitution of the GIE Haropa, bringing together the ports of Le Havre, Rouen and Paris, the “Grand Paris”, the port reform of 2008 which changes, through the mode of governance, the powers of the ports, the merger of the Haute and Lower Normandy, the growing integration of flows with the Paris Region and other Regions, the development of multi-modality, inter-port competition and the cooperation that develops, economic and ecological issues, represent all of the issues that could not escape the interest of researchers. The challenge is to look at the operational performance conditions of supply chains in a context of both integration (within the corridor) and the increasing fragmentation of flows (in the periphery) and, finally, the conditions for the development of a collective competence recognised in a logic of attractiveness of the territory. This project was labeled, in its phase 1 (ongoing), by the Novalog Competitiveness Pole (November 2014) and thus recognised as corresponding to the objectives to be promoted. The comments made on the occasion of the labelling could be taken into account in the drafting of this project, in particular as regards the development of the information platform (Programme 1) and enabled an improvement of this collective proposal. This testifies to the existence of effective synergies in the Region between the actors.This project also forms part of a territorial investment strategy in the field of logistics. In addition to the various operators active in the Upper Normandy region (Novalog, CRITT Transport and Logistics, Comptoir de la Logistique, training courses of different levels in the field of logistics and industrial logistics), the territory will benefit from September 2015 from a new building, the Pôle Ingénieur et Logistique (PIL). The PIL is intended to house research and engineering activities at the service of users. Components of this project are intended to integrate into this new building and give it its full meaning. Class 2 thus assumes a proximity between research and valorisation/engineering.The CLASSE 2 project thus integrates into a pre-existing eco-system in which it participates and contributes in its own way by developing synergies already at work with all the actors.CLASSE 2 is a structuring project. It brings together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds (about 70 people involved) around the same objective: contribute to the improvement of performance and the emergence of collective skills (beyond the research community) to develop the attractiveness of the territory.